On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §185

Man. Post. Cap. II §XIX: Garissoles — Tum in nomine imputationis; circumcision gloss charge

Garissoles: Next, people play various games with the very name of imputing sin (§ XIX). At the start of the dispute we had agreed that in this business 'imputation' means either a judge's act declaring someone guilty and worthy of punishment, or the infliction of the punishment itself. Now everything is shifted. The question is whether Adam's own actual sin is imputed to his posterity. The learned men grant it in words—but hear their gloss: that transgression is 'imputed,' they say, in the same sense in which the Apostle said foreskin is imputed for circumcision (Romans 2:26)—that is, counted as if circumcised. So we, because of the sin that inheres in us from birth, are worthy to be treated as if we ourselves had committed that actual disobedience. Someone might fairly call that tergiversation. We had agreed that to impute sin here is nothing but so to ascribe a sin to someone that, for its sake and in view of it, he comes under guilt and either suffers punishment or is at least judged worthy of it. How far their proposed sense is from that meaning, anyone can see.

Latin

GAR. Tum in nomine imputationis peccati varie luditur. § XIX. Nam disputationis initio consenseramus, per imputationis vocem in hoc negotio intelligendum, vel actum judicis declarantis aliquem reum poenaque dignum, vel ipsam poenae inflictionem. Nunc in alia omnia itur. Quaeritur enim, an ipsius Adae actuale peccatum posteris imputetur. Agnoscunt Viri Docti verbotenus; sed explicationem audi: ita scilicet, inquiunt, ut imputari dicatur illa transgressio eodem significatu, quo dixit Apostolus, praeputium imputari in circuncisionem, id est, eodem loco haberi ac si circumcisum esset: Nos enim, ob peccatum nobis ab origine inhaerens, dignos esse, qui eo loco habeamur, ac si actualem ipsam inobedientiam commisissemus. Quod aliquis sane haud immerito tergiversationi deputari debere pretenderit. Convenerat enim, imputare peccatum hoc loco non aliud esse, quam alicui peccatum ita adscribere, ut propter illud, & ejus consideratione reatum subeat, & vel poenas det, vel certe poenis dignus existimetur. At quam remotum sit illud ab eo imputationis significatu, quem hic proponunt, nemo non videt.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. Caput IX (eph-ho / eph-ho pantes) before eph-ho / eph-ho pantes, reconstructed from IA PDF page images with Vision OCR and pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Cap. IX deepen+ remain.

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IA deimputationepri00lapl. Densify: Capita I–XII + Caput XIV + Man. Post. Cap. II–VI through Cap. X Rom. 5:14 tip. Not whole Disputatio; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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